Imagine an 80-minute music history course talking place in a dusty, hazy studio with wall-to-wall jazz vinyl – records from the past 40 years – jazz, fusion, funky, obscure. This course will not be graded. There will be no lecture. Madlib’s at the turntable. Class is now in session.

Madlib has always called himself a DJ first, producer second, with jazz music as his first love and inspiration. With that in mind you might say this is what he does best. The front & back cover is the painting Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson. CD contains an 8-page booklet.

The track list is not published, but for a few years now the community has been working on it. Feel free to add: